Belait language

Belait
Lemeting, Metteng
Native toBelait, Tutong (Brunei), Sarawak (Malaysia)
RegionBrunei, Malaysia
EthnicityBelait people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 1,000 in Brunei)[1]
(700 in 1995)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3beg
Glottologbela1260
ELPBelait

Belait, or Lemeting, is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Brunei and neighbouring Malaysia. It is spoken by the Belait people who mainly reside in the Bruneian Belait District. There were estimated to be 700 speakers in 1995.[2]

  1. ^ Belait at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Martin, Peter W. 1995. 'Whither the indigenous languages of Brunei Darussalam?' Oceanic Linguistics 34:44–60